SISFF International Feature Special
This year’s SISFF International Feature Special presents two films. Familiar Touch observes the world through the perspective of an elderly woman living with dementia. Rather than framing her condition with fear or pity, the film portrays a reality she constructs for herself. Ghostlight follows a family navigating grief, showing how the process of staging a play becomes a way to work through loss. Real-life family members appear in the film, adding depth and authenticity to the relationships on screen. Both films offer fresh perspectives on memory, loss, and healing.
Ruth Goldman (Kathleen Chalfant), an older woman with dementia, leaves her home for a date. But what she thinks is a hotel turns out to be an assisted living facility, and she must contend with an array of new faces, routines, and surroundings as her ...
info : 2024｜91’｜Fiction｜United States
director : Sarah FRIEDLAND
Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan’s moving, gently comic collaboration is about the power of live theater to make sense of our offstage dramas and personal narratives. Ghostlight centers on Dan (Keith Kupferer), a melancholic middle-aged construction...
info : 2024｜115’｜Fiction｜United States
director : Alex Thompson, Kelly O’Sullivan